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jeltzyesterday at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Chat control is a Swedish proposal that has consistently lost in the Parliament. We should of course keep fighting it but at least as a Swede I know things would have been much worse without the EU.


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rdm_blackholeyesterday at 7:02 PM

> Chat control is Swedish proposal.

It was pushed by Sweden but also by many other countries including France (which loves to give lessons of democracy to the world by the way and is very much at the forefront of human rights or so they say) and Hungary amongst others.

> has consistently lost in the Parliament.

It has consistently lost so far. Secondly the reason it has lost is because people like me took the time to actually reach out to any MEP who would take my call to tell them to oppose this law. If we had waited for the EU to react and put a stop to this madness, we would still be waiting.

This law should never have been proposed in the first place anyway. The fact that it was proposed and debated is a shameful action in itself.

> I know things would have been much worse without the EU.

How can you know for sure? You can't. Since it originated from the EU commission, it stands to reason that without the EU commission it would not have happened.

You believe that the EU is good because that is your belief. The European countries existed for 100s of years before the EU. There is no reason to think that they can't go back to this state in the future.